motherscratcher wrote:Everything Peeker said is the truth. Facebook sucks, and so does everyone else's kids. Winter sucks. I love the hot weather. CDT can go fuck himself on his birthday while he's not at the Clutch concert.

Why didn't you come to the Dayton show, turd-nugget? I did Shrooms and you would have loved it. Me talking about seeing sound vibrations and goblins in the speakers.

Good times.............................

He had to be back in the office early the next morning to swap out Highlights magazines in the waiting room. Can't let Goofus and Gallant get stale for his patients

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

motherscratcher wrote:Everything Peeker said is the truth. Facebook sucks, and so does everyone else's kids. Winter sucks. I love the hot weather. CDT can go fuck himself on his birthday while he's not at the Clutch concert.

Why didn't you come to the Dayton show, turd-nugget? I did Shrooms and you would have loved it. Me talking about seeing sound vibrations and goblins in the speakers.

Good times.............................

He had to be back in the office early the next morning to swap out Highlights magazines in the waiting room. Can't let Goofus and Gallant get stale for his patients

Fuckin' A right. And if I catch anynkids circling the hidden pictures with a crayon or a pen, ruining it for the next kid, he better strap in to that chair tight. No lidocaine for you fucko!

And CDT, I'd have been at that Dayton show if I didn't suck at life and actually knew about it.

The first snow is always hilarious in this town, to the point it should be a holiday.

Thought you were talking about the annual, apocalyptic, 'buy your groceries and bottled water now!!!!!!!' reaction from the news assholes. And they wonder why people were watching the weather in their Seaside Heights living rooms when Sandy destroyed it.

Supposed to actually get more snow today, but they're about 5-11 inches off of that 6-12 inch call.

Govbarney wrote:2 inches of snow , and Atlanta turns into the zombie apocalypse... I cant help but chuckle a little at that.

That is a fine example of local government mis-management on a grand scale.

Houstonians freely admit we suck at all things winter-related. Here, schools close the day before the possibility of ice. As opposed to Atlanta, where hundreds of thousands of dumb asses and unfortunate school kids commuted, only to have everyone flee for their lives 4 hours later when the storm, forecasted well in advance, starting dropping snow on a city with a ton of elevated roadways and no salt trucks, snow plows or winterized emergency vehicles.

Stupid is as stupid does

I don't need to be patient, they're going to be shit forever. - CDT, discussing my favorite NFL team

kennesawmountainwahoo wrote:I work just north of ATL (6 or so miles), live about 20 miles north of the city. I left my workplace just after noon yesterday. Got home at 3:23 AM. No shit.

We make fun of the southern cities like Atlanta that shut down when it gets a few inches, but it's not like they have a giant fleet of plows sitting around, I would assume. Doesn't surprise me that it's a big damn mess for the rare snowstorm.

Right, they don't spend the money for something they need every 5 or 10 years, I guess. And it isn't the snow, it's the ice. A couple of inches thick on the road by the time a truck does roll around. And in my case (and around 200-300 other cars in that particular area), the only reason a truck came is because there were two school buses full of kids.

kennesawmountainwahoo wrote:Right, they don't spend the money for something they need every 5 or 10 years, I guess. And it isn't the snow, it's the ice. A couple of inches thick on the road by the time a truck does roll around. And in my case (and around 200-300 other cars in that particular area), the only reason a truck came is because there were two school buses full of kids.

The way I understand it, there are/were people trapped at work and school. Why didn't everyone stay home? Was it a lot worse than they were predicting or something?

kennesawmountainwahoo wrote:The way I understand it, there are/were people trapped at work and school. Why didn't everyone stay home? Was it a lot worse than they were predicting or something?

It was supposed to hit farther south and less severe. Then it hit late in the morning, and everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, was told to go home at once. Schools, workplaces, government, everyone at once. Add in the ice and you have a gridlock that you couldn't imagine living in the north, where people know what to do. I called my wife at 1 AM and told her not to expect me for another 12-18 hours. I got lucky.

Moscratch, a very rational response - especially from a northerner and especially from you, a noted [insert insult here]. As Kenny said above it was a total screw up in the forecasting. If there was a slight chance of a single snow flake they would have cancelled everything. I have only been down here 3 years but I can tell you snickering is not the correct response. I got that from family members still up north too. It makes no sense for them to have the equipment since it is a rare event to get measurable snowfall. Right before I got down here in feb 2011 they had a bad event too.

On a side note, it brought back memories for me when I had to shovel my driveway today. The memories were not good ones. I came from the snow belt in geauga county.

This was the first time I saw snow that actually stuck on the roads sinceI have been here. In the 60's this weekend.

There are so many people in metro Atlanta, that when ANYTHING goes wrong there is such a fine line between normal and chaotic anarchy. Kind of scary if you let it bother you. Folks down here were really pretty helpful and that was good to hear about. (Helping strangers and the like.)

Well, I labled at least 2 posters here "dumbasses" and for that I apologize.

I projected what was communicated in Houston - "winterstorm warning, expect sleet, freeezing rain and ice on all elevated roadways - stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary" to a similar type of warning in Atlanta. I did not realize that no snow was forecasted for Atlanta metro. A bad situation all around, especially when kids are sleeping in school buses and moms are pushing infants in strollers along the interstate.

I don't need to be patient, they're going to be shit forever. - CDT, discussing my favorite NFL team

hebner20 wrote:matt, I take no offense to your comments. I don't know who you thought you offended but I am fine.

Same here, Matt, no offense taken at all, in case you were referring to me.

I just lumped all Atlanta residents into that category then realized you guys actually lived there! Also confused by all the weather people saying "we told you so" and all the city officials saying "the forecast was wrong"

I don't need to be patient, they're going to be shit forever. - CDT, discussing my favorite NFL team

There is. A lot of finger pointing going on about who was at fault and heard that the national weather service changed the forecast at 3 or 4 in the morning and notified various gov't officials but at that point businesses were unaware and the slow wheels of gov bureaucracy moved too late. I was unaware even at 10 am that it was going to hit the fan and I have all the iPad updates etc. This is a rare case when I side with the gov't.

The worst is over now as the roads are mostly fine with the temps rising and the sun adding to the melt.

hebner20 wrote:Moscratch, a very rational response - especially from a northerner and especially from you, a noted [insert insult here]. As Kenny said above it was a total screw up in the forecasting. If there was a slight chance of a single snow flake they would have cancelled everything. I have only been down here 3 years but I can tell you snickering is not the correct response. I got that from family members still up north too. It makes no sense for them to have the equipment since it is a rare event to get measurable snowfall. Right before I got down here in feb 2011 they had a bad event too.

On a side note, it brought back memories for me when I had to shovel my driveway today. The memories were not good ones. I came from the snow belt in geauga county.

This was the first time I saw snow that actually stuck on the roads sinceI have been here. In the 60's this weekend.

There are so many people in metro Atlanta, that when ANYTHING goes wrong there is such a fine line between normal and chaotic anarchy. Kind of scary if you let it bother you. Folks down here were really pretty helpful and that was good to hear about. (Helping strangers and the like.)

I got this from the Youngstown National weather service website. I am sure it I similar to the Cleveland area except for snow fall amounts which will be completely different due to the lack of lake effect down there. This is through 2012 as it was published in Feb 2013. I downloaded this as a PDF and then I converted it to a jpg and the I cropped this thing and it is still huge - sorry.

hebner20 wrote:It was 86 here today and gorgeous. I have worn nothing but shorts (except for 2 days) outside of work since April. Love it! Going to be in the 80's tomorrow and have a bike ride scheduled.

Sweatshirt weather can kiss my butt.

Pardon the outburst. -----> self inflicted punishment administered.

It's deer hunting season. 40* and sun is perfectly fine by me. I'll even allow for 55-60* during the day.